by Jordan St. Claire

Created on: April 15, 2008

Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) threw a monkey wrench into the supposed coronation of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) simply by running. His huge fund-raising effort hasn't aided Clinton's dire attempt to disrupt his campaign. If anything, the Clinton Machine, misfiring badly, brought race into the equation resulting in DNC Chairman Howard Dean to tell Bill Clinton to shut-up about race or ruin the Democratic Party's efforts for decades.

Bush pulled 12% of the African-American vote in 2000 and 14% in 2004. The resulting 4% gain was the result of wealthy African-Americans voting their collective wallets. Now, some African-American church leaders are breaking with the Democrats over gay marriage and abortion, not to mention the Democrats neglect of African-Americans in favor of Latino voters. Clinton won Texas by the Latino vote while Obama won other states on the African-American vote. Obama was only pulling 55% of the African-American vote till Bill Clinton's mistake before South Carolina. He pulled 89% instead leading to only one conclusion-racism has now entered the Democratic Party. African-Americans vote against Latinos.

The potential disruption, well, probably destruction, of the Democratic Party will happen in Denver at their convention. Hillary isn't quiting and fighting for superdelegates to hand her the nomination even though Obama has won more delegates and more votes. Denver will most likely be 1968 all over again when the loser was chosen over the winner by the party hacks, er, leaders. African-Americans are against Latinos because they think they are being replaced as the minority. Howard Dean, the DNC Chairman, is going to be the damage control man or rioting may occur that hasn't since 1968, which ushered Nixon into office easily.

Obama's mistakes are aplenty as well. His church, which most White Americans see as racist after seeing Rev. Wright in action, his wife's stupid statement ("I'm finally proud to be an American" after her husband won a primary), and calling small city people basically politically challenged. Clinton smartly tagged Obama as an elitist out of touch with the common people. He's Harvard so there's proof he's elitist as she thinks. It was Hillary's first shot at Obama that connected and will hand her Pennsylvania.

The epic and Pyhrric war between Clinton and Obama vying for the nomination is something Democrats don't want. They are shaking on a convention nominating not being a place for the coronation. Neither will run together

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